“Legally Disabled?” Transforming the culture of the legal profession

Posted on 23 October 2018 by Debbie Foster

In our latest post, Professor Debbie Foster details her current research project about the career experiences of disabled people working across the legal profession and explains a key principle of the research – co-production. For the last year, along with my co-researcher Natasha Hirst, I have worked with the Lawyers with Disabilities Division (LDD) of
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The UK Productivity Challenge – Entrepreneurs to the rescue?

Posted on 16 October 2018 by Professor Andrew Henley

In our latest post, Professor Andrew Henley explains how a team of economic, education and skills, health and well-being, transport and infrastructure, and business and enterprise practitioners are tackling the productivity challenge facing the UK economy. The adage that the average German worker has produced as much by Thursday lunchtime as a British worker will
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Evidence-informed policymaking: does knowledge brokering work?

Posted on 1 October 2018 by Sarah Quarmby

In our latest post, Sarah Quarmby takes us inside the Wales Centre for Public Policy to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking. There’s widespread and sustained interest in the role of evidence in policymaking. But because policymaking is inherently messy and complex, there’s no catch-all way
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